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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2012

Weather

Staying and going in New Orleans

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2012, 1:52 PM Aug 28, 2012

It’s hard to know just how seriously New Orleans residents are taking Hurricane Isaac warnings, at least judging by the traffic around the city.

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Rules aimed at bank execs hitting ‘little people’ hard

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2012, 1:36 PM Aug 28, 2012
2

Richard Eggers could be the poster boy for both sides of the banking business. He’s either a victim of greedy corporations or the victim of regulations strangling businesses and eliminating jobs, depending on your view.

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The bike buffer

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2012, 1:14 PM Aug 28, 2012
7

Should drivers be required to give bicyclists three feet of room?

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The world of bosses

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2012, 12:10 PM Aug 28, 2012
2

Bosses are in the news today. How does your stack up?

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The helicopters: If not a training exercise, then what?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2012, 10:51 AM Aug 28, 2012
7

A Texas judge says the UN is going to invade. Then helicopters appear over Minneapolis. Coincidence?

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Five by 8

On signs (5×8 – 8/28/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2012, 7:37 AM Aug 28, 2012
28

Signs in the news, the helicopters of Minneapolis, where are the fathers, your partisan status, and the glamorous world of a country at war.

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The right to flash high beams

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2012, 2:43 PM Aug 27, 2012
14

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld your right to flash high beams at oncoming drivers.

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The line between cute kids at play and child porn

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2012, 12:32 PM Aug 27, 2012
12

The message to parents is clear: Don’t take pictures or videos of your children unclothed.

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Fair dispatches

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2012, 11:53 AM Aug 27, 2012

Factoids from the fair.

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Weather

The good hurricane?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2012, 10:54 AM Aug 27, 2012
5

Someone who could really use it, is about to get a lot of rain.

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Five by 8

The hero vacuum (5×8 – 8/27/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2012, 7:13 AM Aug 27, 2012
7

Who are the next heroes, writing a life’s story one peck at a time, welcome to Grand Forks, the things you learn playing football in Stillwater, and another BWCA video.

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The antidote to this week’s news

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2012, 3:06 PM Aug 24, 2012
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Regular NewsCut readers probably know that I like to leave the week behind on Friday afternoon with something that provides a little equal time from the other end of the news spectrum.

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Minnesota is no Boston. And that’s a good thing

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2012, 1:33 PM Aug 24, 2012
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I realize this is a tough time to be shining the spotlight of happiness on the Minnesota Twins, but a developing situation in Boston has got to make even the most embittered Twin fan proud of the local entry in the American League.

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A matter of difference

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2012, 11:47 AM Aug 24, 2012
1

Considering how political reporters have to listen to every stump speech a presidential candidate gives, you’d think some of them would be better at remembering them than the story of Mitt Romney’s speech in Minnetonka last night reveals.

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Tales from the open, err… closed, road

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2012, 10:55 AM Aug 24, 2012
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If Americans were better at improv, state troopers might write fewer tickets.

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